SALT LAKE CITY — On Thursday afternoon, a man with a rifle fatally shot a Utah County Sheriff’s deputy and injured another one along a highway. The first shooting occurred around 1 p.m. on SR-73 in the Eagle Mountain area during a chase that stretched over 50 miles before the man was caught. "Evil ran through Utah County today," Utah County Sheriff, Jim Tracy said in a televised news conference … [Read more...]
Utah ranks 10th in freedom study
Utah has ranked 10th in a study of freest state among all the 50 United States. The freedom study, which is being conducted every year since 2009, was prepared by Mercatus Center of George Mason University and was authored by assistant political science professors William Ruger and Jason Sorens. The authors included an extensive list of factors to define freedom. Utah has increased six … [Read more...]
Martin MacNeill’s mental competency to be evaluated
Provo: A judge on Tuesday said Martin MacNeill, a convicted wife-killer, must have his mental competency evaluated before an unrelated sex abuse case goes forward. MacNeill, 57, a former Pleasant Grove doctor was found guilty in November of murdering his wife, Michele MacNeill, in 2007. He is scheduled to go to trial Feb. 4, which is now cancelled in a separate case on a charge of forcible … [Read more...]
Phillips 66 pays Utah $2 million as settlement
Oil refiner Phillips 66 has paid $2 million to resolve the claim that the oil firm deceived a state fund for cleaning up damage from leaking fuel storage tanks. Phillips 66 is one of the three companies that has been accused of double-dipping the fund by the state. The other two are Chevron and BP Amoco. While Chevron has given $1.8 million in an out-of-court settlement, a case remains … [Read more...]
Advocacy Groups Praise Polygamy Ruling by Utah Judge
Groups advocating individual liberties and polygamy hailed a ruling by a federal judge on Saturday that key parts of the polygamy laws in Utah were unconstitutional, saying it is removing the arrest threat for those families. Judge Clark Waddoups from U.S. district court said in his Friday decision that a provision in the law in Utah forbidding the cohabitation with another person was in … [Read more...]